GONZALEZ v. PLANNED PARENTHOOD – THE POLITICS OF D&X and PBA

May 8, 2007
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We’re only talking about a few rare special cases, and as soon as you (Sol. Gen. Paul D. Clement) tell me that what’s supposed to happen is that the judges are supposed to start deciding whether this is one of these unusual cases or not rather than relying upon significant medical opinion as this...

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THE BENEFITS OF LAWSUITS

May 1, 2007
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Newt “the Duplicitous” Gingrich again impugns American justice: “The Justice Department has embraced the legal tactics of a sue-happy plaintiff’s lawyer: dig through a jurisdiction’s election data looking for an improperly low number of bilingual poll workers, file a lawsuit, then muscle the local government into a consent decree and settlement — another scalp...

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WHAT CAME FIRST, THE MEANING OR THE NEED (G-D IS NOT NOTHING)

April 26, 2007
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What came first, the meaning or the need?“The meaning” is Gods. “The need” is what prompts the upholding or invention of Gods. Did a storm, a meaning, cause an internal understanding to take shape? Did overlapping needs (the need for something with the need to understand that something as something) cause understanding to be...

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SPENSERIAN BARGAIN

April 17, 2007
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Can you not be negotiator led That way is not what makes a man a man Can not you get this thing around your head To get from here we need a master plan To make the give and get a way to stead The plan is what we must preserve correct Agree or...

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SESTINOLOGY

April 17, 2007
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I am what I was What I was was reserved Through that I sought greatness And achieved what I did – Enjoying it mostly Each part of each day.   So in the end, when the day was the day, I achieved whatever it was That day I spent my time at, mostly –...

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BOOK REVIEW: THE MAKING OF A PHILOSOPHER, MY JOURNEY THROUGH TWENTIETH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY by COLIN McGINN

April 13, 2007
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BOOK REVIEW by Jonathan VitarelliPhilosophical Principals – With List and DiscussionA LIST OF McGINN’s PHILOSOPHERS and PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES THAT HE HAS DISCUSSED, DEFINED and PARSED:  Colin McGinn                                       The Ontological ArgumentDescartes                                             Descartes’ “Brain In A VatFreud                                                   SolipsismNoam Chomsky                                   Cartesian SkepticismZinkernagel                                           DeterminismWolfe Mays                                         Universal Causality                   Spinoza                                                Analytical PhilosophyKripke                                                 ExistentialismDonald Davidson                                  PhenomenologyTarski                                                   IntentionalityDavid Lewis                                         ExistentialismsNagel                                                   17th...

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